Turning air into water Building a renewable future, one drop at a time

Turning air into water isn't sci-fi, it's AKVO's reality. From corporate campuses to climate-challenged cities, Navkaran Singh Bagga is reshaping hydration with tech that sips the sky. Sustainability just found its new source

- Ashok Pandey

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie. A sleek machine humming quietly in the corner of a room, turning the invisible moisture in the air into clean, drinkable water. No pipelines. No plastic bottles. Just pure innovation. While the concept may seem futuristic, it’s already hereand one entrepreneur has made it his mission to make this the new normal. In this exclusive conversation, Navkaran Singh Bagga, founder and CEO, AKVO, the mind behind this bold leap, opens up about the technology, the challenges, and why the world needs to rethink how we drink.

When Navkaran Singh Bagga first looked beyond the comfort of his traditional business portfolio in 2016, he wasn’t chasing the buzzwords of solar or wind. Instead, he chose something far more elusive. Water.

“It was underexplored,” he said plainly, speaking from experience, not idealism. For him, the appeal wasn’t just environmental, it was entrepreneurial. “The sector demanded a new kind of thinking. The turnaround times, the R&D cycles, even the product lifecycle; everything was different from my work in manufacturing, fintech, and hospitality.”

That “different” led to a radical bet on air-to-water technology, an idea that had existed in the background since at least the early 2000s but hadn't yet made a commercial breakthrough. AKVO's approach? Reimagine it from the ground up, starting with the basics.

How do you extract water from thin air?